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Data from the National Sleep Foundation show 60% of US adults have driven while drowsy and around 33% have actually fallen asleep at the wheel.
Being awake is NOT the same as being alert!
Everyone knows the lack of sleep affects brain function, it, therefore, follows driving with minimal sleep … [Read more...] about Sleep and Safe Driving

The most common food allergy for US children under 5 is milk! A prevalence of 1.9%, which is important to know! Of concern, I would say yes, so many foodstuffs contain milk or milk byproduct.
Milk is strongly encouraged in the first 8 years of life in our culture so it is important to know if a … [Read more...] about Milk Allergy

According to The Lancet Public Health, your odds of dying are higher if you switch carbohydrates for animal-derived fat or protein but longevity odds increased with the switch to plant-based protein.
Those who get 50-55% of their daily energy from carbohydrate saw a low risk of mortality.
A … [Read more...] about Carbohydrate Intake and Mortality

Thanks to CPR kiosks at some airports you can in 4 minutes learn 'Hands-only CPR'.
After evaluating different ways of teaching CPR: a kiosk session with a manikin, a class with a facilitator and a video-only session it was realized a 4 min session is as effective as a 30 min. CPR … [Read more...] about Learn CPR at Airport

Yes, flu season (Influenza) started already but it peaks from after Thanksgiving to March, so please have a read.
Need to heed the following, if you do not want the join the roughly 5 million Americans who get the flu. You definitely do not want to be the one of the 49,000 that dies for it and … [Read more...] about Flu Truths

Philosophy

Each one of us plays a major role in our health care, every minute of every day we are ultimately in charge. Information is constantly changing, hence a need for vigilance on all our parts to stay up to date so we can better care for ourselves and our families. This web site provides a connection to medical information that would otherwise not be easily accessed. Emergency medical experts have been invited to participate in an effort to make available a broad selection of useful information and resources. It’s our philosophy that by providing medical common sense as easy-to-understand information we can help to create a strong base upon which consumers can build their knowledge, enabling them to make better health care decisions.

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